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11/16/2020: Moses in the African American Tradition with Herbert Marbury

Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
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Join us for a lecture with Herbert Marbury, as part of the 2020 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Series, "Finding Moses." This lecture discusses ways that African Americans deploy Moses traditions as a counter-narrative over successive eras of repression. Moses arises as a transforming and transformative symbol in African American religious imagination. Herbert R. Marbury teaches at Vanderbilt University, Divinity School and researches how biblical texts come to have various meanings both in the ancient world and in the contemporary worlds of modern U.S. communities. In the ancient world, he focuses on Judah under Persian and Hellenistic imperial domination, which are the societies from which much of the literature of the Hebrew Bible emerged. ...more
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11/16/2020: Moses in the African American Tradition with Herbert Marbury
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Join us for a lecture with Herbert Marbury, as part of the 2020 Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Series, "Finding Moses." This lecture discusses ways that African Americans deploy Moses traditions as a counter-narrative over successive eras of repression. Moses arises as a transforming and transformative symbol in African American religious imagination. Herbert R. Marbury teaches at Vanderbilt University, Divinity School and researches how biblical texts come to have various meanings both in the ancient world and in the contemporary worlds of modern U.S. communities. In the ancient world, he focuses on Judah under Persian and Hellenistic imperial domination, which are the societies from which much of the literature of the Hebrew Bible emerged.

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Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies

916 subscribers